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[CLOSED | EXCLUSIVE: Lenovo Product Team AMA] Answering all your burning questions about the Lenovo Legion Go

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  • Goalier95's Avatar
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    Hello Sergey,

    Thank you for doing these communications and am looking forward to pre-ordering my Legion Go at my local Best Buy here in the U.S. as soon as it's available.

    My quick question and I don't recall seeing it mentioned before but correct me if it has:

    Has Lenovo done internal thermal tests regarding any heat issues of using the MicroSD card reader while playing high demanding games while at higher TDPs? I know a lot of owners have had problems with a certain brand of a handheld pc that was recently released this year and would love to have our concerns reduced.

    Thank you again.
  • Otagastrife's Avatar
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    @ProjectSBC I know that you will implement the handheld control panel very well in the legion go. I will be looking forward to both the legion go and HCP. With the oxp 2 I always used it because of the profiles, the tdp and the fps limiter. It will really help me a lot

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    Hello Sergey,

    Thank you for doing these communications and am looking forward to pre-ordering my Legion Go at my local Best Buy here in the U.S. as soon as it's available.

    My quick question and I don't recall seeing it mentioned before but correct me if it has:

    Has Lenovo done internal thermal tests regarding any heat issues of using the MicroSD card reader while playing high demanding games while at higher TDPs? I know a lot of owners have had problems with a certain brand of a handheld pc that was recently released this year and would love to have our concerns reduced.

    Thank you again.

    I want to know the same
  • TimF's Avatar
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    is there any chance we will see an auto TDP feature in legion space like in the ayaneo 2s as seen here?
  • vTuga's Avatar
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    Hi @SergeyBalashov

    From the other Z1 Extreme and 7840U devices already on the market, we know that the sweet spot of battery and performance is in the 17-18W tdp range. Meaning, the performance scales pretty well until 17W, and then starts to taper off, and there is diminishing returns in the power increase, with a lot of heat and noise being produced and very negligent performance gains after 18W.

    That being said, and bearing in mind that a lot of people expect a plug-and-play experience that maximizes performance and battery life, wouldn’t it make sense for the default TDP profile to be in the 17-18W range?

    According to your math on the post above, a 17W TDP, with 3W for the screen at 50% brightness, 2W of speakers at 50%, and 1W wifi, would give around 2h10min of battery life, and great performance, out of the box.

    Remember that alot of people that buy these handhelds come from consoles, and are a different market from pc gamers, that like to thinker and mess around with settings. A lot of returns from the Ally and Steam Deck are from people that expect it to work great out-of-the-box and plug-and-play.
  • YeiCov's Avatar
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    Translated by Spanish CM:
    Will it have AutoTDP? I mean, other handhelds have had the inconvenience that if you set a mode of for example 25W, the APU would remain fixed consuming that much power. The best thing would be for the machine to regulate itself depending on the use up to the limit we set.
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  • joehyuk's Avatar
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    Hi, do you think you can provide more insight into what went into the decision to make the battery the size it is? While it's 20% larger than the one in the Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally, those devices have a smaller (and presumably less power hungry) screen, while the closest competitor to the Go in terms of screen size, the Ayaneo Kun, has a battery that's 50% larger than the Go. Thanks.
  • baldsealion's Avatar
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    @SergeyBalashov

    I’m afraid the community has caught Lenovo red-handed. Please scroll down this page and you will see it says 144hz VRR

    https://www.lenovo.com/il/en/legiongo

    So once more for verification, does it; or does it not, have VRR? Lol

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  • Zdenko's Avatar
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    @baldsealion
    this is a topic that just doesn't die :D even when we are ready to let it go, lenovo teases us once more
  • Hifihedgehog's Avatar
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    @SergeyBalashov

    You’ve got some ‘splaining to do my friend since you doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on the line that Lenovo never said there was VRR and any other non-official source pretending to be official (such as the widely publicized leak last week) was bogus. Welp, for your viewing pleasure, I’ve archived this page on Archive.org just in case some marketing person at Lenovo does a ninja edit to cover up their tracks of this official webpage. As of now, both the direct and archived pages below at Lenovo.com undeniably show Lenovo advertising VRR for the Legion Go. So if you guys made a mistake in marketing, time to fix it or confess the truth that VRR is coming. And if you are sandbagging to try to withhold the announcement of a killer feature a week before release to keep the excitement going, this sandbagging is very sloppy and sad, I am afraid:

    Direct:
    https://www.lenovo.com/il/en/legiongo

    Archived:
    https://web.archive.org/web/20230908044935/https://www.lenovo.com/il/en/legiongo


    Note to all: Ignore @Geekfest84 below as he clearly did not click on the link. VRR is listed right there. CRTL+F and “VRR” will show it right in the official Lenovo literature on their official webpage. Case closed.
  • Geekfest84's Avatar
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    @baldsealion

    Please don't waste the remaining time on the ama on stuff that's already been covered! We'd rather @SergeyBalashov answer new, important questions! 👍

    The screen ISN'T vvr capable. That's it. End of. 👍

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    @Hifihedgehog

    Why waste the ama going over stuff that's already been extensively covered? It hasn't got vrr. That's it. End of. Leave it at that and let's use the ama for new, important stuff.